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IRF Symposium 2007 - Videos and Presentations
Day 1 - Data Issues
- Johannes Hahn
Austrian Federal Minister for Science and Research
Welcome Address
Watch the video - C.J. van Rijsbergen, Chairman of the IRF Scientific Board
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Glasgow
Biography
Keynote
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Session 1 - Data quality
- Wolfgang Thielemann
Head of Information Retrieval and Analysis, Bayer Healthcare AG
Biography
OCR errors in patent full-text documents
Watch the video - R. Manmatha
Research Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts
Biography
Effective retrieval of misrecognized scanned documents
Watch the video - Linus Wretblad, CEO, Uppdragshuset AB
Joni Sayeler, Marketing Manager, Uppdragshuset AB
Biography
IPR system error!
Watch the video - Birger Larsen
Associate Professor, Royal School of Library and Information Science
Biography
User errors in formulating queries and IR techniques to overcome them
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Session 2 - Language gap
- Barrou Diallo
Head of Research, European Patent Office
Biography
Machine Translation of Chinese patents: an overview of the challenges
Watch the video - Key-Sun Choi
Professor and Head of Department, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Biography
Automatic Machine Translation - Focus on Asian languages
Watch the video - Minah Kim
Assistant Manager, Korea Institute of Patent Information
Biography
Cross lingual patent retrieval issues in Korean language
Watch the video - Jian-Yun Nie
Professor, University of Montreal
Biography
What’s different with Chinese in cross-language IR?
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Session 3 - Corpus enrichment
- Monika Hanelt
Information Manager, Agfa Graphics NV
Biography
From patent searcher’s wish list – searching in all different patent segments
Watch the video - Mounia Lalmas
Professor of Information Retrieval, Queen Mary, University of London
Biography
Focusing the search process to segments
Watch the video - Jane List
Information Specialist, The Technology Partnership
Biography
A picture speaks a thousand words: retrieving the information hidden In patents
Watch the video - Peter Willett
Professor, Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield
Biography
Representation and searching of molecules in chemical patents
Watch the video - Gerald Landl
Head of IP-rights and standards, voestalpine Stahl GmbH
Biography
Classification & industry-specific terms and keywords – Metadata
Watch the video - Peter Bruza
Professor, Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology
Biography
Term semantics by association
Watch the video - Daniel J. Phelps
Director, DJP Information Consulting Services, LLC
Biography
Automatic concept identification: extracting problem solved concepts from patent documents
Watch the video - Gregory Grefenstette
Research Scientist, CEA List
Biography
Automatic concept identification
Watch the video - Piet van Zanten
IP Information Specialist, Philips Intellectual Property & Standards
Biography
The need of evaluation methodologies in practice
Watch the video - Mark Sanderson
Reader in Information Retrieval, University of Sheffield
Biography
Developments in evaluation of search engines
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Day 2 - Application Issues
- Henk Tomas
IP Information Specialist, IP Search Services
Biography
“50 million patents further and we are still searching like 28 years ago”
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Session 4 - Tools for information professionals
- Kalervo Järvelin
Academy Professor, Department of Information Studies, University of Tampere
Biography
Issues and approaches on interactive patent retrieval: evaluation of sessions rather than queries
Watch the video - Minoo Philipp
Patent Information Manager, Henkel KGaA
Biography
How do we go about searching for patent information?
Watch the video - Ian Ruthven
Reader, University of Strathclyde
Biography
Interfacing with search results
Watch the video - Antoine Blanchard
Patent Information Specialist, Syngenta Crop Protection AG
Biography
Handling search results
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Session 5 - Tools for management & research
- Leo Wanner
Professor, ICREA and Pompeu Fabra University
Biography
Patent analysis – Delivering on promises
Watch the video - Haydn Evans
Senior IP Analyst, GE Healthcare
Biography
Patent analysis – Delivering on promises
Watch the video - Matthias Hemmje
Professor, FernUniversität in Hagen
Biography
Supporting patent retrieval in the context of innovation processes by means of information visualization
Watch the video - Anthony J. Trippe
Sr. Innovation Manager, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
Biography
Patent mapping and visualization: what is the state of the art?
Watch the video - Francisco Webber
CEO Matrixware
Biography
TempRanger Showcase
Watch the video - Stephen Adams
IRF Patent Expert Committee, Managing Director, Magister Ltd.
Biography
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